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HIGHS FROM THE FIELD.
Rev. N. E. Pressly, D. D., in The A.
R. Presbyterian.
A letter was received some days
ago from Rev. William W. Boyce. .
Waxhaw, S. C., having been en route
to Tampico since the 20th of January,
and he asks for the readers of
The Presbyterian some information
as to conditions in our field, which
embraces the extreme southern part
of the state of Tamaulipas, the eastern
part of the state of San Luis
Potosi and the northern part of the
state of Vera Cruz.
Until July, 1913, the missionary
force was composed of four missionaries.
one assistant missionary, seven
lady teachers, two lady physicians,
eleven native preachers, eight native
female teachers, one Bible woman,
four large schools, one seminary, one
hospital, one orphanage and twenty
nl&ces of Dreaching; and all this
force was happy in their work and
doing efficient service. Today only
one missionary is on the field; one
of the native preachers is in the (,
United States, two have been called (
to their reward; and of the others. f
some are at their post and others are j
refugeeing. To the sad, sorrowful ,
interrogatory, why has all this work ,
been paralyzed? The only answer j
that cotnes Is "For so it seemed good t
In the Father's sight." The lesson v
has not yet been learned; the knee v
has not yet been doubled; the head |
has not yet been bowed; no heart j
confession has yet been made, no
suppliant cry has yet been winged j
to the Throne Room for mercv, and
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the billows continue to roll over the n
war-stricken and wasted country,
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and unabated in their violence and t
fury.
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In the state or lamaultpas, wo
have only three places of preaching, ^
Tampico. Dona Cecilia, and Las {
Lomas. At Tampico the services ^
have been uninterrupted, and until *
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a month ago our congregations were
never better, inree wet-M v afum.? (j
were conducted all during the siege , h
of almost five months and after the f(
occupation of the port by the Car- w
ranoista army, they have been well
attended. The city is full of refu- s
gees from the surounding towns, vll- 0
lages, and ranchos, and many have :
worshipped regularly with us, some ,j
have manifested interest, have been p
baptized and received as members. I
A great many sofdiers. have attended j
our services. Notwithstanding the
fact that for months we have been
t- ..'it s
under excitement incident to war and r
its calamities, that we have been
witnesses to the daily scenes of actual ^
warfare, the wounded, dying and t
dead brought in to the hospitals and (
cemetery from the front to the north
and west; that there has been a ?
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scarcity of food, the forerunner of
famine and many other things that
tend to demoralize, the church has
not neglected its duties, and the con- '
tributions have been sufficient to j
meet the salary of the native preacher,
lights and other incidental ex-'t
penses, with a balance in the treas- (>
ury. The salary of the native preach- l r
er was increased some, and that in- c
crease has been met. Two services 1 '
a month have been given to the Eng- .
lish speaking residents in Tampieo
and these have been better attended jj
than ever before. e
Dona Cecilia is a suburban town
of some four thousand people, two v
and a half miles from Tampieo. We
have a small chapel that has been v
furnished tor the past six years by e
the railroad company. It is small, ?
and it is filled every service twice t
every Sabbath. There are a number i
of refugees there, and a good many i
attend our services. A tramway has i
been built from the city of Tampieo (
to the beach, distant some five miles, \
and runs through the suburban i
towns of Arbol (Iratide, Dona Cecilia,
and B1 Aguila, a large colony, where ?
the Aguila Petroleum Refinery is lo- x
rated. There is abundant work in t
this port, if we had at least four t
more chapels.
Las I.oirtas del lteal is a village on s
the coast of the Onlf some twenty t
miles from Tampion. The town la
maintained by the salt industry, and (
we have a chapel there. During the |
life of faithful Pedro Garcia, we had (
an interesting and encouraging little ,
work there. The demoralizing effect
of war has had an incredible influence
on the man. who took the le?,d
in Christian work there after the
death of Sr. Garcia. It is said that (
men, who are model characters, kind j
and upright, in time of peace often
become brutes in time of war. Such
has happened to the man in Las
Lomas del Real, who gathered the '
people together every Sabbath morn- ,
ing for Bible study and exhortations .
three times f. week. He kept the
Sabbath Day, read and studied his
Bible, and was respected for his upright
life. Three years of internal
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savagery and vandalism as has surrounded
us has wrecked him to the
lowest type of humanity. He gave
himself to the world and its lusts,
abandoned his family, and left the
place.
When Rev. H. E. Pressly was in
Ciudad del Maiz, he had a young
man, Catarino Roldan, studying under
him and helping in the work.
He and Miss Strong, the principal of
the girls' school in El Maiz, sent hira
to the Theological Seminary of the
Presbyterian church at Coyuacan,
near Mexico City. He returned after
Rev. H. E. Piessly was ordered with
all American citizens to the United
States, in the year 1913, and took
up the work which had been kept up
by Anselmo Palomino in Valles.
Valles has been in the hands of the
federala, of the Carrancistas, and
also the Villistas, and has suffered at
,1? of Iho nnnoaine forms.
many of her citizens have been shot,
and the place pillaged, our chapel
was occupied as headquarters for the
officers, and all the furniture has
been destroyed, and the homes occupied
by Dr. Rachel McMaster and Mr.
Pressly have been looted of all the
furniture and belongings. Catarino
Roldan was there when the place was
taken by the Carrancista forces and
escaped after losing his effects and
part of the clothing he had on. He
las been preaching at I,as Romas
since that time. The report of his
>vork at l.as Romas is encouraging.
Ie has a Sabbath school and services
wice a week. He also opened a night
icliool for boys and men, and in that
vav increased the attendance at pubic
work. Ras Romas has been in the
lands of the opposing factions sevral
times, and twice the preacher
las had to refugee to Tampico. The
ongregation has not grown because
if removals. The majority of Mexi
ans are not property owners ami
hey are nomadic, families come and
o. but many hear the gospel.
June 18, 11)15.
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1 hold these truths to be self-evient:
That a sane man knows when
e is siek; that he has sense enough
o seek a remedy; and that he knows
.lien he is cured.
This, therefore, is addressed to
ane men, to reasonable, level-headd,
practical men.
Men have bodies, minds and souls,
'he soul is what makes them greatr
than animals. Often, when the
odv and mind are sound and
lealthy, the soul is sick.
You know whether your soul is
irk. "For a pood tree bringeth
lot forth corrupt fruit; neither doth
i corrupt tree bring forth good
ruit." "An evil man out of the evil
reasure of his heart bringeth forth
hat which is evil."
You know whether your thoughts
nd words and actions are clean and
lecent. If they are not clean, your
oul is sick.
There is a physician who makes a
pecialty of cases like yours. Here
s his advertisement: "They that
re whole need not a physician; but
hey that are sick. J came not to
all the righteous but the sinners to
epentance. For the Son of man is
ome to seek and save that which
was lost. Him that cometh to me
will in no wise cast out."
Take your case to Him. He will
irst warn you concerning your presnt
condition. Here are His words:
Kxcept ye repent, ye shall all likewise
perish."
uere is me prescription wun
rhioh He will heal you: "Whoso ver
(lrinketh of the water that I
hall give him shall never thirst; but
lie water that I shall give him sha'l
>e in him a well of water springing
ip into everlasting life. For God so
oved the world that He gave His
>nly begotten Son, that whosoever
lelieveth in Him should not perish,
nit have everlasting life."
And when you are healed and
nade elean, not only you but all the
vorld will know it by these two
ests; "If ye eontinue in my word,
hen ye are my diseiples indeed."
My this shall all men know that ye j
ire my disciples, if ye have love one |
o another." |
These are not my words; they are j
'hrist's. This is1 not my plan of |
lealing; it is God's. See this Physl-j
ian privately and discuss your case
villi Him.? Fountain Inn Tribune. |
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It's a funny thing, though, that no
ana ever seems to be bored when !
noney does talk, no matter how long I
t talks. I
A (ioo<l Household Saive.
Ordinary ailments and injuries are |
not of themselves serious, but infer-|
Hon or low vitality may make them <
dangerous. Don't neglect a cut,
sore, bruise or hurt because it's
small. Blood poison has resulted
from a pin-prick or scratch. For all
such ailments Burklen's Arnica
Salve is excellent. It protects and
heals the hurt; is antiseptic, kills infection
and prevents dangerous complications.
Oood for nil skin blemishes.
pimples, salt rheum, eczema
Bet an nrtgirfal 2-ounce 25c box from
your druggist. 2
THE LANCASTER NEWS
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HARBINGKR8 OF BETTER
TIMES.
milllllllHI MUMIHIll
Augusta Chronicle.
The reports of enormous cron
yields, covering virtually all th--*
great staple products, portends wonderful
things for the country within
the next few months. When you
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uuiiu runruuub", ii 1 k canais, construct
manufactories, establish great cities
and after all forget and neglect agriculture
the fundamental basis is left
out. The railroads will fail, the canals
become clogged by disuse, the
factories will be destroyed by rust,
and the streets of the cities will grow
green with grass. There is no theory
or philosophy that can successfully
contend with these facts.
Unfortunately the South produces
the one-crop that borders on overproductnon,
and this would not'be
true in normal times. But this year
the production will be greatly curtailed.
the distribution of the marketing
period will be more conducive to
stable prices and undoubtedly we
shall see improvement, even in cotton.
But should this rot be the case
the South will be in the saddle with
the rest of the country this fall, for
economy has been thrust upon us and
we will actually be on the high road
to success in industry and commerce
in virtually every section.
We are rapidly learning the business
side of farming, and incidentally
in ntlipr lin??j nil ..-ill
develop different features of the
South's resources. The demand for
the cotton crop will cause unparalleled
advance in the great lleecy staple
if war's horrible veil is lifted from
the face of Kurope and we shall share
in a prosperity beyond our most sanguine
hopes.
Hut in any e\#nt we can expect the
nation's bounty to reflect favorably
upon the South within the next
month or two Already our railroads
have felt improvement brought about
through the movement of our fruit?
peaches and melon*?and soon the
great movement of the bulky weight
products will serve to further remedy
the situation.
It is only the pessimist who can
predict anything else than development.
prosperity and progress for the
country at large.
However, in this first flush of ad
viiiiceniem irom me era 01 apparent
depression, it will be well for the
financiers, for the leaders in city and
country, to take cognizance of
changing conditions and assist in
htdping the people generally to prepare
for the reflex action, so to speak,
that must come when the vortex has
calmed and the country settles down
and begins to help rebuild the waste
places of depleted Europe. It will
be to this country that they will look
for succor, and it will be to the South
that commerce will look for swelling
the increasing volume of trade and
enlarging the amounts to the credit
side of America's trade.
The gratifying feature of the situation,
as viewed here in the midst of
summer, is that the last lap of the
struggle has been started, the borderlinn
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line WI uuoiiicna atuvilj 10 ill m^iu,
the railroads will soon be taxed to
handle the traffic, the merchants will
have decidedly better business, the
people will generally have an air of
confidence and under this impetus
the halting condition will be eliminated.
and the South, along with all
the rest of the country, will feel the
revivifying effect of a new and better
state of affairs.
THE I'MItMKlt'S < HEKI>.
I believe in a permanent agriculture;
a soil that will grow richer
than poorer front year to year.
I believe in 100-busbel corn and in
50-bushel wheat, and I shall not be
satisfied with anything less.
I believe that the only Rood weed
is a dead weed, and that a clean farm
la as important as a clean conscience.
I believe in the farm boy and in
the farm girl, the farmer's best crop,
the future's best hope.
I 1 believe in the farm woman and
| will do all in my power to make her
| life easier and happier.
| I believe in the country school that
prepares for country life, and a coun|
try Church that teaches its people to
love deeply and live honorably.
I I believe in community spirit, a
| pride in home and neighbors, and I
| will do my part to make my com|
munity the best in the^tate.
I I believe in the farmer, 1 believe
j in farm life, I believe in the InspiraI
tion of the open country.
I am proud to be a farmer and I
will try earnestly to be worthy of
| the name. ?Exchange.
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic propertiesof QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. -SO cents.
, JULY 20, 1915.
Good Co\ "gel for Girls.
From an address oy Hon. T. W. Bickett
at Queen's College.
A sensible diet should be the first
course prescribed?and not only prescribed
but taught?in every school
for girls. It is hard to get a sweet,
fluffy young thing to understand that
the simplest fare is the best. Young
ladles, there are more roses for your
cheeks in poached eggs and turnip
salad than there are in those deliclous
promoters of indigestion that
sell for 80 cents a pound. There are
more sparkles for your eyes in a glass i
of buttermilk than in the whole bubbling.
sizzling aggregation of Soda
fountain concoctions.
My Becond prescription is, be nat
ural. The great actresses are easily
numbered. Few people can play a
part without making themselves ridiculous.
Affectation spoils more faces
than smallpox. You simply cannot
develop grace and charm in a selfconscious
personality. Be generous,
be open-minded, be sincere.
The third prescription is, be holy.
You must be if you would enter into
the full kingdom of woman's beauty.
The King's daughters are, and of
necessity must be all beautiful within.
Be careful of your thoughts. )
Read only the best literature. Let
nothing low or little find lodgement
In your mind. Set an angel with u .
flaming sword at every gateway of 4
your soul, that no creeping, crawling j
tiling may enter there. The most ^
pathetic figure in the world is that of tile
man who hnvint? <lm<? lito ^
work, when lie starts to his hotnt j
Hoes down grade- when the woman i
with whom he lives, his wife, his
mother or his sister lives on a lower ^
plane and ha3 more sordid views of "j
men and things than he. God pity ^
such a man. lie lives in a cellar. !?
Hut fortunate is the man who climbs ^
to his home, who amid the tempia- ?|
tions of the day can look and see his j
home shining like a star. j
An Annual Visitor. 1
Greenville News.
The "how-to-keep-cool" man is J
abroad in the land, and verily it is jj
time for him to blossom forth. Mon- j
day was such a day as to make people discard
the elegant word "warm" j
(recommended for parlor usage) for i
the more accurate word "hot." There ?j
have been several sucn days since the 4
sun of summer began to dispense its
wealth of heat. And even as the cot- ton
plant flourishes in such weather, so
does the man who tells you how j|
to keep cool. He will say stop worry- H
ing, for fretting augments the speed H
of the blood flow. He will advise '
thin clothes, just as if anyone were
crazy enough to wear thick ones
when the mercury was flirting with
the one hundred mark. He will say
that you should not think about the
heat, but unfortunately this quasiChristian
science advice is not worth
any more than some of the real Christian
science stufT. The fellow who
knows all about how to keep cool is a
pest; is a first cousin to the man who
asks if it is hot enough for you. He is
one of the lucky individuals whosa
constitution was intended for the
tropics, while the rest of us are prone
to Jlilnk that the North Pole was
fasloned for our special abode. He
makes us hotter by talking to us.
When we try to think about keeping
cool, we get mad and then get hotter
still.
The men who keep cool and who 1
would have all other men emulate
their happy state of being, forget
that with a man who is not similarly
constituted, it "can't be did." An
Eskimo would burn op, and an Arab
would freeze in Maine. That's the
way they are built, and despite all
the advice which could be given them, <
they would burn up or freeze, just
the same.
IX MK.MOR1AM.
' Written in memory of our dear
| sister, who departed this life July
n t?i i m K
Dearest sister, thou hast left us;
In that heavenly world so fair
You are safely in the arms of Jesus,
I Free from toil and care.
Our sister, she is sleeping
In a new made grave today;
Hut we are weeping, sadly weeping,
1 For our sister gone away.
We loved her, yes, we loved her;
Hut Jesus loved her more.
And He has sweetly called her
To yonder shining shore.
The golden gates were open,
And a gentle voice said "Come,"
I Afwl lulth D fnrouTAll n
She claims the Heavenly home. ,
One by one the Lord will call us I
As our labor here Ib done;
"And, as we cross the river,
We shall meet her one by one.
?SISTER BESSIE SHU1\E.
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System
Take the Old Standard GROVE'S
TASTELESS chillXfONIC. You know
what you arc taking, as the formula is
pruited on every label, showing it is
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form.
The Quinine drives out malaria, the
Iron builds up the system. 50 cents
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Men of Lancaster
Prosperity and local pride are twins. The;
up together. Enthusiasm for the home tow
men. Once developed,*this feeling shows di
profits. i
Have you ever seen a shabby town proo
powerful factor in keeping prosperity after a i
We sell and recommend
Dutch Boy L^|||
as the base of "quality-first" paint. Put s<
you and your business. Call us up. We sell
BENNETT TER
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? erly?that is, enough food of th
C We are doing our part at th
l vou a pure grade of goods in ev
l ing the price so low that any
j, enough. It will pay you to rem
^ future depends greatly upon the
We have just received the FA]
r Uoods, Kippered Fancy Herring
t sauce (Hordelaise) and Selected
t which will add to our complete
; Call for the White Crown Fri
; the best made, fits any Mason Jt
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: PURE FOOD!
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See Our Toil
We carry a large assortment of
and reasonable in price. Sponges, s
toilet water, tooth brushes and pow
among the many toilet requisites tl
not buy something useful in this lix
Useful dresents are the best.
LANCASTER
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as successful as we
low prices. We claim tl
most reasonable anywhei
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community has won it.
s White Lead
3me "lead-and-oil" paint to work for
I all good painting requisites.
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